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The The - Armageddon Days Are Here (Again)
Unto Ashes - The Drowning Man
Gary Numan - In A Dark Place
The Deadfly Ensemble - The Anatomist
Espers - Widow's Weed
Frank The Baptist - The Brandishing Time
The Prids - Shadow and Shadow
Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Knock Three Times
Red Voice Choir - No Swan (live)
Fad Gadget - Collapsing New People
Darvoset - Stitches
Faith and The Muse - Chant of the Paladin
Storm Large and The Balls - Deathrock Stomps

A new band featuring past and present members of The Holy Kiss, Black Ice & Death of a Party. They will be recording an EP in August.



Red Voice Choir Myspace page.

Almost six years ago I started the radio show "TheSkysGoneOut" on WEFT 90.1fm. The show focused on the best in gothic and darkwave genres (and anything else I thought would fit). It was a good long run of a radio show that I enjoyed very much. A recent move had me leaving the airwaves and I contemplated if that was the last of what I had created there.

But after a few weeks off, I realized that I missed sharing the music with people. I wanted a new platform to play music I felt (in my humble opinion) deserved attention. Living in a major city where radio gigs are few and far between I decided to produce my own podcast from home. I have the technology, now all I need are people willing to listen.

I just posted my very first solo podcast, I hope that if you read this you'll download the show and give it a try (forgive the technical glitches I'm still working out the bugs). Even better, if you like what you hear please subscribe to the podcast so it will automatically download to you each week as I post the show (those of you who were subscribed to the old show don't have to do anything, the address remains the same). Each show will be an hour long, and will be updated weekly.

Here is the playlist for 07/14/06 [download the show directly]

Nouvelle Vague - Bela Lugosi's Dead
Sumerland - So Many Selves
Behind The Scenes - Obsession
Unto Ashes - Occupying Force
Mirabilis - The Writing On My Father's Hand
Glass Candy - Etheric Device
Clan of Xymox - Calling You Out
Front Line Assembly - Dopamine
The Dresden Dolls - Delilah
Ordeal By Fire - ReCreation
The Brides - If You Dance

The show will focus mainly on new releases with an occasional favorite or new find. If things go well I may make the show longer in the future.

TheSkysGoneOut

Thanks, and I hope you'll "tune in".

Jason Pitzl-Waters / DJ ZoZo
NOX / DJ ZoZo

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LJ/blog along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to.

- "Alala" by CSS (aka Cansei De Ser Sexy)

Imagine if Le Tigre was from Sao Paulo and turned the irony-o-meter down from "11" to say "4". This is a great dance-track. Seriously.

- "Occupying Force" by Unto Ashes

Unto Ashes is pretty much at the top of their field at this point. If this advance track from their new CD is any indication then expect another winner. A beautiful(ly sad) song.

- "Everything in Motion" by Sumerland

This is what I always expected the Mission (UK) to sound like (but didn't really). This is a great goth-rock CD, a softer and more tribal counterpart to Redemption's anthem-driven "Home".

- "Etheric Device" by Glass Candy

I didn't buy the hype the first time around. But now Glass Candy really has my attention, think early new-wave, think early Siouxsie (Hong Kong Garden), think minimalism. A great track.

- "Fell Down The Stairs" by Tilly and The Wall

This band is really cute. They are from Nebraska, sing songs about being young and fucked up (and in love), and their percussion is a tap-dancer. They are charming live too. This is from their debut CD, but their new stuff is good too. If you like pop-songs that live in your head this may be your song.

- "Nine" by Forward, Russia!

Ready for another geeky post-punk-inspired spazzy-vocaled band who name all their tracks after numbers? You bet your ready!

- "Gatheration" by Lady Sovereign

Some say this track off the Sov's upcoming CD is "techno" but it reminds me more of early hip-hop than anything else (think LL Cool J's "Radio"). But in any case this is a very stripped down track. I think she may be trying to escape the "grime" label.

I generally don't "tag" people, but it is always good to look at what your listening to now and then. So if you feel the urge, list your own.

Like the chocolate bar in the peanut-butter jar, goths and pirates seem to go along together rather well. Now these two cultures of men in billowy shirts (and the women who love them) intermingle even further with the anticipated release of a two-disc compilation of pirate-inspired music from Anti records entitled "Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys".

Of special interest to the darkly inclined is the inclusion of Nick Cave, Jolie Holland, Lou Reed, and three members of The Virgin Prunes performing as "Three Pruned Men". Strangely, there is no contribution from Anti label superstar Tom Waits. Maybe it was too obvious.

First off, congrats to DJ Kannibal and DJ Rickbats on their new radio show called "Decayed Lace" (in the same slot/time as "TheSkysGoneOut" used to be). They ARE podcasting (yay!) and you can find the feed for the podcast, here. Don't worry about your radio voice Rick, I hated my radio voice for ages, and finally just had to learn to love it.

So that is way cool.

But I am completely missing doing the radio thing. So I have decided to do my own podcast. I'll still call it "TheSkysGoneOut" I think, and it will be a weekly hour-long show (instead of two hours which I think is excessive for a podcast-only program). I'm not going to start doing this until July after I get the details worked out, so stay tuned.

I'm also hoping to do a lot more writing soon. I have an ambitious writing project in mind for this blog, hopefully happening sometime around when the podcasts start back up. Fans of post-punk will most likely dig it the most.

Rhino continues the Cure deluxe reissues series.